It’s been more than six months since Windows 8 was launched last October, so how is Microsoft’s controversial operating system doing with consumers? According to Tami Reller, the company’s chief marketing and financial officer, more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses have been sold since launch – up from 60 million in January.In fact, Windows 8 is now on-pace with equaling Windows 7’s record as Microsoft’s fastest selling operating system. However, the Redmond-based company isn’t exactly busting out the champagne to celebrate just yet. “I feel very good about that number, but [it’s] not good enough,” Reller told GeekWire.Microsoft seems to blame the slow uptake of Windows 8 on the minimal number of touch-based devices available at launch. “If there had been more touch devices in the market, it would have been even more,” Reller said to ZDNet. There will be over 2,400 new Windows 8 and RT devices available this year, so we’ll see if her theory proves true. In our opinion, the forthcoming update to Windows 8 (codenamed Blue) will probably help move even more copies of the operating system when it is released later this year since it should address some of the problems users are having with the… Read full this story
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